Lower Slack Farmhouse And Adjoining Barn

Lower Slack Farmhouse and adjoining barn date primarily to 1760, with later 18th-century additions. The farmhouse is constructed of hammer-dressed watershot stone, with a graduated stone slate roof. Originally a two-storey, two-bay house, it was later extended by a bay to the right and has an adjoining barn to the left that projects forward to form an outshut and incorporates a cart entry at the angle. The barn features quoins and an elliptical-arched cart entry. The original two-bay section has a four-light, double-chamfered cavetto-moulded mullion window on the ground floor and a six-light window on the first floor, the latter reflecting a later raising of the eaves. The third bay, a later addition, obscures the former gable entrance and incorporates a door with a dressed surround and a six-light recessed, flat-faced stone mullion window with king mullions on both floors. Two ridge chimney stacks are present, one of which is rendered. A small single-storey addition sits to the right. A door lintel inscribed "RW BW 1760" (Whitehead) is located on the door lintel.